Hello. The following packages FTBFS for me randomly. First column is the bug number, second column is the estimated probability of failure in my build environment, which is described here:
https://people.debian.org/~sanvila/my-building-environment.txt Before I ask the Release Managers that they make the bugs at the top of this list serious again (using some kind of threshold, as discussed in Bug #844264), I would appreciate if somebody else could double check that those packages have indeed very flaky tests (or buggy Makefiles, in some cases). [ Please report any findings to the nnn...@bugs.debian.org address ]. While I agree that none of those individual bugs is more important than a bug of "FTBFS-always" type, some packages have a failure ratio so high that if we accepted that they "build from source" with such a high failure rate, they would effectively honor policy if we had it reversed, as in "packages must *not* build from source". I call this "the FTBFS-randomly Schrödinger paradox". This is, however, not an invitation for the Release Managers to set 50% of failure rate as the threshold, that would be probably the worst possible interpretation of "Packages must build from source" (which is already Release Policy). The current list: 837067 1.000 libsecret 848063 0.990 ri-li 850282 0.820 influxdb (this one is already serious, thanks Adrian) 854686 0.556 fabric 854494 0.457 execnet 834686 0.440 ruby-httpclient 843038 0.400 elki 842244 0.390 congress 850506 0.327 acorn 850507 0.300 golang-github-tideland-golib 846771 0.292 python-traits 851722 0.288 django-pipeline 842836 0.250 golang-github-mxk-go-flowrate 854496 0.248 python-qtpy 844088 0.230 conversant-disruptor 848055 0.230 golang-github-go-chef-chef 834962 0.210 ruby-diaspora-vines 849217 0.185 jruby 839444 0.183 libgda5 850201 0.160 tendermint-go-flowrate 848054 0.150 debci 853056 0.145 txfixtures 854495 0.143 node-merge-stream 843052 0.140 libterm-filter-perl 852642 0.125 scoop 834959 0.120 golang-goleveldb 850414 0.110 ruby-ftw 832865 0.100 telepathy-python [ The remaining packages that FTBFS randomly for me do so less than 10% of the time, but in either case all the figures are approximate ] Thanks.
